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Request for Community Input - Draft 2018 Long Range Science Plan

Will you need an ice core or an access hole drilled in a glacier or ice sheet in the coming decade? If so, please read on and send us your input!

Each year in the spring the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) of the U.S. Ice Drilling Program works with its Science Advisory Board and with the research community to update the IDPO Long Range Science Plan. This Plan identifies the science in the coming decade that will require the use of ice drilling technology and expertise for the community. This also drives the formation of other plans, for example the IDDO Long Range Drilling Technology Plan. The plans provide the basis for multi-annual planning for the actions and drill development projects of IDPO-IDDO and others, and the plans give the funding agencies advance notice of upcoming community science needs.

If you will need an ice core or a hole drilled in a glacier or ice sheet in the coming decade, or a rock core from under shallow glacial ice, please make sure that the high-level articulation of your science is captured in the current draft update of the IDPO Long Range Science Plan!

Please read through the draft Long Range Science Plan and send corrections, updates, or additions to Icedrill@Dartmouth.edu ASAP or not later than May 30, 2018.

Submission deadline: 30 May 2018

To download the working draft, please visit:
https://icedrill.org/long-range-science-plan

Winter 2017-18 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available

The WINTER 2017-18 quarterly update of IDPO and IDDO activities is now available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits

Topics include:

  • IDDO Completes Support of 2017-2018 Antarctic Season
  • IDPO Ice Core Working Group Tackles Science-Technology Tradeoffs
  • Equipment Updates
    • Foro 3000 Drill
    • Foro Drill
    • Rapid Air Movement (RAM) Drill
    • Thermal Drill
    • Intermediate Depth Drill
  • IDPO Hosts Successful Town Hall at AGU
  • Antarctic Science Generates Enthusiasm at an IDPO Education and Public Outreach Event at Rutgers University
  • Call for Input - Long Range Science Plan
  • Ice Drilling Support for NSF Polar Proposals

To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits

Ice Drilling Support for NSF Polar Proposals

The NSF Antarctic Science section will now accept proposals at any time for solicitation ANT 18-530, and the NSF Arctic section will accept proposals at any time for solicitation ARC 16-595. Scientists who are proposing research that will require ice coring or ice drilling, and associated education and outreach activities, should request field support from IDPO-IDDO by completing a Field Project Support Requirements form available at https://icedrill.org/scientists/scientists.shtml , and/or follow the directions regarding obtaining outreach support at https://icedrill.org/scientists/outreach_support.shtml . Scientists should send the information to Icedrill@Dartmouth.edu at least 3 weeks before the target date for submitting your NSF proposal.

IDPO-IDDO Field Project Support Requirements Form:
https://icedrill.org/scientists/scientists.shtml

IDPO Outreach Support for Scientists:
https://icedrill.org/scientists/outreach_support.shtml

ANT 18-530 solicitation:
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18530/nsf18530.htm

Frequently asked questions for ANT 18-530:
https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf18042

ARC 16-595 solicitation:
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16595/nsf16595.htm

Fall 2017 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available

The FALL 2017 quarterly update of IDPO and IDDO activities is now available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits

Topics include:

  • Sediment Laden Lake Ice Drill and Stampfli Drill Now Ready for PI Use
  • Field Support to Antarctic 2017-2018 Projects
  • Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions AGU Town Hall Meeting
  • Announcing new IDPO Education and Outreach Website
  • Announcing School of Ice 2018
  • Requesting Ice Drilling Support

To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits

Fall AGU Town Hall Meeting: Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions

Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions AGU Town Hall Meeting

Date: Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Place: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 208-209

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) is once again organizing a Town Hall meeting at the Fall AGU Meeting entitled 'TH23H: Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions'. Ice sheets, glaciers, and the underlying bedrock, sediment and permafrost hold crucial evidence of past climate, ice sheet extent, and cratonic geology. National and international collaboration for drilling in the remote polar regions requires strategic coordination between science, technology, and logistics. This meeting will provide the research community with updates on IDPO-IDDO, IPICS, IPA, RAID, and SALSA drilling initiatives. Opportunities for community involvement will be showcased, and input from the audience will be solicited.

AGU meeting website for more information:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Session/30134

For further information, please contact
Mary Albert (Mary.R.Albert at dartmouth.edu)

Summer 2017 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available

The SUMMER 2017 quarterly update of IDPO and IDDO activities is now available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits

Topics include:

  • IDDO Welcomes New Mechanical Engineer/Project Manager
  • IDDO Finishes Successful 2017 Arctic Field Season
  • Equipment Development
    • Winkie Drill
    • Stampfli 2-Inch Drill
    • Rapid Air Movement (RAM) Drill
    • Sediment Laden Lake Ice Drill
    • Foro 3000 Drill
    • DISC Drill versus Foro 3000 Drill Analysis
    • Winch Simulator
  • Long Range Science and Long Range Drilling Technology Plans Updated
  • School of Ice Development Program Successfully Held at Dartmouth College
  • NAAEE Outreach Event
  • Dr. Julie Palais Awarded Richardson Medal
  • Charles Bentley, Pioneering UW-Madison Glaciologist, Dies
  • Charlie Bentley Commemorative Event

To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits

Charlie Bentley Commemorative Event

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Our dear friend, mentor and colleague, Charles Bentley, passed away on August 19th after a beautiful and accomplished life and career. A commemorative reception will be held on Friday, September 22nd on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus. Light refreshments will be served. While a formal program will not be held, guests will be able to visit a number of spaces to view photos, videos, Antarctic memorabilia and to share stories of the man that touched so many lives.

As we plan for this event, please feel free to send any photos of Charlie that you would like included in a slide show shown at the gathering to kristina.slawny@wisc.edu. In addition, if you are a former student of Charlie's, please visit this website to add your information (and that of your own students, if applicable) to Charlie's academic family tree.

https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=665035

Event: Commemorative Reception honoring Charlie Bentley
Date: Friday, September 22, 2017
Location: UW-Madison Geoscience Building, 1215 W. Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706
Time: 5:00 - 8:00pm

**RSVP: To assist the hosts in planning for refreshments, please RSVP to kristina.slawny@wisc.edu by Friday, September 15th.**

A memorial service will be held the following day on September 23rd at the Unitarian Church, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison, WI 53705 at 10:00am, with a reception to follow. A private burial will be held on Sunday.

We hope you will join us. Please feel free to distribute this far and wide. All are welcome.

There was an obituary in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/science/earth/charles-r-bentley-87-pioneer-of-polar-science-is-dead.html

Charles Bentley, pioneering UW-Madison glaciologist, dies

Charles R. Bentley, an intrepid University of Wisconsin-Madison glaciologist and geophysicist who was among the first scientists to measure the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the late 1950s, died Aug. 19 in Oakland, California. He was 87.

Bentley spent the bulk of his career studying the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the continent beneath it.

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Spring 2017 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available

The SPRING 2017 quarterly update of IDPO and IDDO activities is now available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits

Topics include:

  • IDDO Welcomes New Field Support Manager
  • Antarctic Cargo Returns to Madison
  • Field Support to 2017 Arctic Projects
  • Equipment Development
    • Stampfli 2-Inch Drill
    • Rapid Air Movement (RAM) Drill
    • Sediment Laden Lake Ice Drill
    • Foro 3000 Drill
  • IDPO and IDDO Lead Successful Science Advisory Board and Technical Advisory Board Meetings in Madison, WI
  • White Papers from the Subglacial Access Science Community Planning Workshop Available
  • IDPO Involved in Multiple Education and Outreach Events
    • School of Ice
    • Checking Out Your Team
    • IDDO Outreach Event
    • Polar Educators International (PEI) Workshop
  • IDDO Driller, Robb Kulin, Selected by NASA to Join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class
  • Requesting Ice Drilling Support

To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits

Request for Community Input - Draft 2017 Long Range Science Plan

Will you need an ice core or an access hole drilled in a glacier or ice sheet in the coming decade? If so, please read on and send us your input!

Each year in the spring the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) of the U.S. Ice Drilling Program works with its Science Advisory Board and with the research community to update the IDPO Long Range Science Plan. This Plan identifies the science in the coming decade that will require the use of ice drilling technology and expertise for the community. This also drives the formation of other plans, for example the IDDO Long Range Drilling Technology Plan. The plans provide the basis for multi-annual planning for the actions and drill development projects of IDPO-IDDO and others, and the plans give the funding agencies advance notice of upcoming community science needs.

If you will need an ice core or a hole drilled in a glacier or ice sheet in the coming decade, or a rock core from under shallow glacial ice, please make sure that the high-level articulation of your science is captured in the current draft update of the IDPO Long Range Science Plan!

Please read through the draft Long Range Science Plan and send corrections, updates, or additions to Icedrill@Dartmouth.edu ASAP or not later than May 25, 2017.

Submission deadline: 25 May 2017

To download the working draft, please visit:
http://icedrill.org/long-range-science-plan